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UGA announces 2021 Alumni Awards recipients February 8, 2021 Outstanding alumni and friends recognized by the UGA Alumni Association The University of Georgia Alumni Association has announced eight recipients of the 2021 Alumni Awards, an annual program dating back to 1936 that recognizes individuals and organizations who demonstrate a commitment to the university. The 2021 honorees are: Chester Davenport, Alumni Merit Award The Honorable Brian P. Kemp, Alumni Merit Award Bonney Shuman, Alumni ...

Edward Paul ‘Ed’ Crapol WILLIAMSBURG — Edward P. “Ed” Crapol, 84, died peacefully at his home the morning of Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, of congestive heart failure. A historian, teacher, family man and friend, Ed was born Sept. 29, 1936, in Buffalo, New York, to Paul Crapol and Emmi Klinger Crapol. His parents emigrated from Germany in the early 1930s seeking the opportunities America offered themselves and their children. Ed excelled at school and became the first in his family to atte...

Albert Titus UB researcher Albert H. Titus, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Fellowship, according to the NAI, is the highest professional distinction accorded by the organization to academic inventors who have demonstrated “a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and th...